Hour 6<\/p>\n
9\/2\/2023<\/p>\n
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“Solitary\u2026”<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Seems a commonality shared within our understanding and even the acceptance of the word “solitary” for what it is.\u00a0 But is it “shared” or is it just that we each have our own unique ‘bars’ behind our eyes?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Roman Catholic Seminary,<\/p>\n The United States Marine Corps;<\/p>\n years of doing, living,<\/p>\n a wandering will-o’-the-wisp –<\/p>\n I couldn’t even buy a social clue…<\/p>\n but strangers HAD to tell ME<\/p>\n their hurts and of the abuse and abrasions<\/p>\n to their souls\u2026 ’cause at least I WOULD listen.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Trust isn’t given – it’s earned,<\/p>\n and people have their own agendas,<\/p>\n their own ways.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Eating is a hell of a habit to break<\/p>\n and hunger is not a choice.\u00a0 Some scam<\/p>\n but,they can still be human.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You come to see that most often<\/p>\n \u2026people\u2026 “settle” –<\/p>\n for someone (anyone) to<\/p>\n share a path.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They may be good,<\/p>\n or bad;<\/p>\n but, most often afterwards –<\/p>\n they HAVE to change the other into their OWN vision<\/p>\n of what they want a partner to BE.<\/p>\n Then the “changing” of a person becomes the priority<\/p>\n – until –<\/p>\n the changes take away the person that was<\/p>\n OR the intended changee becomes so frustrated<\/p>\n and angry with giving up themselves.<\/p>\n For the most part – we DON’T choose<\/p>\n whom we love, just whom we like.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Loneliness is real<\/p>\n and it builds and builds<\/p>\n as false hopes are dashed,<\/p>\n and wishes fail and fall by the waysides –<\/p>\n fill our world, flavor our lives.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And we grow our own “bars” behind our eyes –<\/p>\n seeking to keep our feelings and emotions hidden<\/p>\n as our only way of dealing rather than take<\/p>\n another (or even any) chance at all<\/p>\n that COULD hurt\u2026 or crash our uni-verse.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reaching means risk, risk means – it could hurt.<\/p>\n Loneliness wins and each of us pays a price.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chris<\/p>\n (C) Chris Twyford 9\/2\/2023<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hour 6 9\/2\/2023 “Solitary\u2026” Seems a commonality shared within our understanding and even the acceptance of the word “solitary” for what it is.\u00a0 But is it “shared” or is it just that we each have our own unique ‘bars’ behind our eyes? …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5958,5735,10,1084],"class_list":["post-130588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2023-hour-6","tag-chris","tag-poetry","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130588"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145323,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130588\/revisions\/145323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}